On 2009-01-07, at 01:00, JF Mezei wrote:
Northern communities in Canada's arctic rely exclusively on satellite
for voice/data.
Ditto most Pacific Island nations...
Not a lot of data flowing comparatively, but it is their only option
so
it is more of a mission critical thing than a
French Polynesia has no fiber links at all and relies exclusively on
satellite and
maybe radio for internet access.
It looks, though, like they may finally get fiber sometime in the next
decade :
http://www.newstin.com/tag/us/95233925
Marshall
On Jan 7, 2009, at 1:00 AM, JF Mezei wrote:
I lived in a Caribbean country where, at the time, most of their LD traffic
was over satellite. While people didn't like it, there were times that
there was no public off-island access for a few hours at a time. It's just
a fact of life, and people get used to it. Those who don't buy a
It depends on where in some cases. Take Greenland for example. Prior to Tele
Greenland possibly completing the Greenland Connect cable[1] real soon now
(Halifax to Nuuk, Nuuk to Iceland, branched to Qaqortoq, with xcon to UK and
Denmark) I seem to recall that a large amount of their capacity
When I was working with Svalbard, Internet connectivity was through a
satellite link at about 2.5 degrees
elevation looking through a notch in the mountains. I don't think it
has changed
Regards
Marshall
On Jan 7, 2009, at 2:38 PM, Martin Hannigan wrote:
It depends on where in some
When I was working with Svalbard, Internet connectivity was through a
satellite link at about 2.5 degrees
elevation looking through a notch in the mountains. I don't think it
has changed
It has. Svalbard now has undersea cable connection to the Norwegian
mainland. See
On 7 jan 2009, at 21.05, Niels Bakker wrote:
* aaron.milli...@bright.net (Aaron Millisor) [Wed 07 Jan 2009,
20:53 CET]:
[..]
If I were to prepend the network 1.1.1.0 to come in on 'sprint 1',
but have a route to 2.2.2.0 via 'sprint 2' so that traffic comes
in on one circuit but returns on
On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 4:11 PM, Roland Dobbins rdobb...@cisco.com wrote:
In my experience, once one has an understanding of the performance envelopes
and has built a lab which contains examples of the functional elements of
the system (network infrastructure, servers, apps, databases, clients,
At least in the US, satellite use is fairly limited compared to fiber
and copper,
mainly in the following areas
- TV broadcast
- Data and voice to remote areas (a few hundred Alaska villages,
some connectivity up to oil drilling areas in Alaska, though
there's also fiber,
plus some Internet
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